[sprik]

My daughter is 16, she is in the criminal justice program at school. I am so glad she is in it, gets her into something to think about other than boys, texting, hanging around lol. Any ways the test she had to take was to pretend to pull someone over. A real sheriff officier walked with her to grade her, but he would not speak. She did everything correctly. But for one thing. She got a 30 out of 32. She did the one thing that is the most important thing a officier has to pulling someone over. She forgot to tell dispatch where she was located. After she was done, the sheriff was like, well hopely you didnt need assistant, or get hurt. Everyone thought is was funny, the class studied it pretty hard. She was so embarrassed.

Does anyone have some cute stories they are dying to share with me

[unaluna]

Well she wont ever forget THAT question again! I will never say, "I have went" instead of "I have gone" - since some time in junior high! I repeated it wrong about 5 times until i figured out what the problem was. She still got 30 out of 32 - I bet that's at the top of the class anyway!

[IndieVisible]

I thought you were gonna say she forgot to tase them

I thought you were going to say she mock murdered someone, or answered a question that she would kill the driver, and failing on that question.

[Fresia]

The mistakes we make are the things we never forget. It will save her in the future and better that it happened there than out somewhere else.

Test stories. .. we had a 6 hour science final exam. We were all so nervous but one classmate in a particular was, his hands were shaking really badly. We got our tests; some of us finished and some did not. We got our tests back and the friend who was shaking so badly got a 50 despite getting all of his problems actually correct. Thrilled at doing well but shocked at the grade; he noticed he had been so very nervous that he actually misspelled his name. I went with him for support when he asked about it; the prof explained his reasoning that all you have in this world is who you are, that is the most important thing, that nothing else is worth losing sight of that, and not even for an exam. He was able to appeal it with the Dean, but the compromise was only to move the grade up to passing. Funny how things stick with you; even decades later and returning to school, even with it not being my test and when I submit things now, I look them over again to make sure, did I actually put my name and did I spell it correctly? I'd sure hate not to be who I am.

[growlycat]

I was in a software training class with a cop who had an interesting list of things never to say to someone causing a disturbance....

one was "You need to calm down." (it only agitates people more)
and
"I'm not going to say this twice." (yes, yes you will. the perp is drunk or unstable)

There are more, those are the 2 that stand out!

[growlycat]

aha! it was kind of like this list!

http://policelink.monster.com/traini...-say-to-anyone

[sprik]

I'm going to email that to her teacher. I also know someone who got marked down because they misspelled their name. THANKS

[healingme4me]

Originally Posted by Fresia

The mistakes we make are the things we never forget. It will save her in the future and better that it happened there than out somewhere else.

That is the truest statement out there. Cannot recall, the educational mistakes I have made, in my life. I just do, find, that even in life/work(mainly), whatever mistakes I make, usually minor, it becomes embedded into my psyche, and I don't make that mistake, again.

For example, at work, I place milk orders, every other day. I'm still only 4 months into a promoted position, and one time, I didn't make the call to order, presumed, I wouldn't get an order; instead, I received the same large batch delivery that my previous order was. The delivery driver, 'helped' me out there, and just returned the cases I didn't really need. So come today's order, knowing that we won't be there, Monday or Tuesday, I knew right off the top of my head, to inform the customer service rep, that I wouldn't be in on Monday, and didn't need a delivery on Tuesday. ((and to make it all that more a 'learned lesson', the Business Manager happened to be there, when I made that phone call ))